Parauchenipterus or Trachelyopterus

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 08 Aug 2005, 18:09

To anyone (HH?) who might know:
Is it true that the genus Parauchenipterus does no longer exist and that all previous members are now called Trachelyopterus??

Post by **Silurus** » 08 Aug 2005, 19:15

Is it true that the genus Parauchenipterus does no longer exist and that all previous members are now called Trachelyopterus??

According to CLOFFSCA, yes.

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 09 Aug 2005, 16:53

Thanks for your reply.
But what happens to the fish already in Trachelyopterus? There must have been some difference, otherwise fish wouldn't be divided into two genuses to start with, would they?

Post by **Silurus** » 09 Aug 2005, 17:10

I think the differences are not enough to warrant dividing them into two genera.

Erwin · Post by **Erwin** » 12 Aug 2005, 06:31

Isn't it interesting, that everybody(?) uses CLOFFSCA as a revisionary paper, even it only lists names. There is to my knowledge not yet a paper published, which explains, why the differences in the two genera are now not big enough any more, as they used to be when both were established.
Anyhow is the splitting off in different genera an act which always had to be seen critically, to loose a genus might also mean to loose taxonomic manifested information on fish groups.

Erwin